Markets
Farukpara:
Flutes, hats, pitchers and other stuff made by the bawm people are sold in little shop crammed full with exotic and wonderful products. bargaining while sipping on a cup of tea is a wonderful activity here.
Marmabazaar:
All the local food and textile products, as well as wet grocery vendors selling fresh hill produces. look for nappi, a local delicacy, to take home here. but, don't forget to pack it tight when carrying. this market bustles with activity in the earl morning, with tribes-people coming down the hills to sell vegetables of every color, as well as roots, tubers, fruits, berries and nuts.
Shoilo Propat:
Shawls, blankets and buskets made by the bawm people are sold by them by the side of the waterfall.
The BSCIC Shop:
Various handloom and cottage products. it is the sales center for the cottage industry development project of bangladesh government.
Master Shopping Complex
And burmese market: full of thai, chinese & burmese products. this market is always busy with throngs of buyers, sellers and onlookers. marma shopkeepers, mostly women, are easy to deal with with, and ma provide with information on the place and the people.
Bonolota Textile
And rangamati textile: these shops at the traffic mor sells handloom products from rangamati, another area of the hill tratcs, here. since the chakma people are very different from the marma, bawm and mru people of bandarban, the products may bring a fresh break.
There is an abundance of Brumese, Thai and Chinese trinkets, textile and other stuff in the town. But, the best buy is definitely the products of local handloom - cloth fabric, shawls, blankets and more - as well as products of bamboo, cane and wood - buskets, flutes, hats, mask and more. Prices are amazingly low, and textile qualities are amazingly high. The designs are refreshingly exotic and extremely geometric. Only the textile from Myanmar called Burma here have floral or fire patterns, and are made by machine looms.
dress
Both the Bandarban Bazaar and the Marma Bazaar sell, hawk and peddle an incredible number of floral-patterned Burmese cloths that are used to make dresses in Marma style. A thicket of tailoring shops line the streets of both markets to cater to buyers of these cloths. It is a fun activity for women to buy cloth and take it to a tailoring shop. Custom fit Thami sarong and Angi Blouse are tailored in a day.